Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz (also known as "Litwos"; May 5, 1846–November 15, 1916) was a Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist. He was one of the most popular Polish writers at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1905 for his "outstanding merits as an epic writer."
Born into an impoverished gentry family in the Podlasie village of Wola Okrzejska, in Russian-ruled Poland, Sienkiewicz wrote historical novels set during the Rzeczpospolita (Polish Republic, or Commonwealth). His works were noted for their negative portrayal of the Teutonic Order in The Teutonic Knights (Krzyżacy), which was remarkable as a significant portion of his readership lived under German rule. M
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Susanna Clarke
Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. The following year she taught English in Bilbao.
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Joseph Murphy was a Divine Science minister and author.
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Vardges Petrosyan
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In 1954 he graduated from the Yerevan University and started writing for several youth newpapers. As a newspaper correspondent he travelled all over his native Armenia and throughout the entire Soviet Union—from 'Yakutia in Eastern Siberia to Karelia in the northwest of the country.
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Michel Zevaco founded the anarchist weekly magazine Gueux (French, Beggars) on March 27, 1892. A month later he was jailed for 6 months and fined for praising Pini and Ravachol. Afterwards he wrote for Sébastien Faure's journal, Libertaire, as well as for the anarchist newspaper La Renaissance. In 1898, he edited l'Anticlérical, for the Anticlerical League of France and was involved in supporting Alfred Dreyfus during the eponymous Dreyfus Affair.
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Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.
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In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]
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Theodore Dreiser
Naturalistic novels of American writer and editor Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser portray life as a struggle against ungovernable forces. Value of his portrayed characters lies in their persistence against all obstacles, not their moral code, and literary situations more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency; this American novelist and journalist so pioneered the naturalist school.
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Jan Kochanowski
Kochanowski was born at Sycyna, near Radom, Poland. Little is known of his early education. At fourteen, fluent in Latin, he was sent to the Kraków Academy. After graduation in 1547 at age seventeen, he attended the University of Königsberg (Królewiec), in Ducal Prussia, and Padua University in Italy. At Padua, Kochanowski came in contact with the great humanist scholar Francis Robortello. Kochanowski closed his fifteen-year period of studies and travels with a final visit to France, where he met the poet Pierre Ronsard.
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In 1559 Kochanowski returned to Poland for good, where he remained active as a humanist and Renaissance poet. He spent the next fifteen years close to the court of King Sigismund II Augustus, serving for a time as royal secr -
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Irena Jurgielewiczowa
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Adam Mickiewicz
To a Pole, the name Adam Mickiewicz is emblematic of Polishness and greatness. What Homer is to the Greeks, or Shakespeare to the English, Mickiewicz is to the Poles. He is a cultural icon, a name inextricably connected with Polish literature and history, and one mentioned with pride. Mickiewicz stands out in the consciousness of Poles both as a man of letters and a political leader.
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Despite his unquestionable status and fame, however, much of Mickiewicz's biography is shrouded in mystery. Even the generally accepted date of his birth, December 24. 1798, is uncertain, since it hasn't been determined whether it refers to the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. Nor has it been established conclusively whether Mickiewicz was born in Nowogrodek or -
Aleksander Fredro
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Robert Bolt
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Son of a small shopkeeper, he attended Manchester Grammar School. He later said that he made poor uses of his opportunities there. He went to work in an insurance office, but later entered Manchester University, taking a degree in History. A post-graduate year at Exeter University led to a schoolmaster's position, first at a village school in Devon, then for seven years at Millfield. During this time he wrote a dozen radio plays, which were broadcast. Encouraged by the London success of his stage play "Flowering Cherry" he left teaching for full-time writing. 1960 saw two of his plays ("The Tiger And The Horse" and "A Man For All Seasons") running concurrently in the West End. -
Jan Brzechwa
Jan Brzechwa, born Jan Wiktor Lesman was a Polish writer of Jewish descent. He is mostly known for his contribution to children's literature as well as for his translations of Russian literature, translating works by Aleksandr Pushkin, Sergey Yesienin and Vladimir Mayakovskiy.
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Joanna Fabicka
pisarka i felietonistka z wykształceniem filmoznawcy oraz doświadczeniem montażystki. Łodzianka. Pracując w łódzkiej Filmówce, montowała m.in. nominowaną do Oscara „Męską sprawę” w reżyserii Sławomira Fabickiego (męża).
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Debiutowała w 1993 roku tomikiem poezji "Bardziej cierpki smak". Jest autorką bestsellerowego cyklu książek o dojrzewaniu nastoletniego Rudolfa Gąbczaka i jego dysfunkcyjnej rodzinie, wydanych nakładem W.A.B.: Szalone życie Rudolfa (2002), Świńskim truchtem (2004), Seks i inne przykrości (2005) i Tango ortodonto (2006). W 2006 r. ukazał się przekład rosyjski pierwszej części cyklu, a w 2008 r. charytatywne wydanie książki w formie audiobooka, przeznaczone dla osób niewidomych i słabowidzących. Obecnie pracuje nad książeczką d -
Aleksander Fredro
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Adam Mickiewicz
To a Pole, the name Adam Mickiewicz is emblematic of Polishness and greatness. What Homer is to the Greeks, or Shakespeare to the English, Mickiewicz is to the Poles. He is a cultural icon, a name inextricably connected with Polish literature and history, and one mentioned with pride. Mickiewicz stands out in the consciousness of Poles both as a man of letters and a political leader.
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Despite his unquestionable status and fame, however, much of Mickiewicz's biography is shrouded in mystery. Even the generally accepted date of his birth, December 24. 1798, is uncertain, since it hasn't been determined whether it refers to the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. Nor has it been established conclusively whether Mickiewicz was born in Nowogrodek or -
Bolesław Prus
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An indelible mark was left on Prus by his experiences as a 15-year-old soldier in the Polish 1863 Uprising against Imperial Russia, in which he suffered severe injuries and imprisonment.
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Eliza Orzeszkowa
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Maria Konopnicka
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Jan Sawa (Pen Name)
Poetka, publicystka, nowelistka, tłumaczka. Zajmowała się krytyką literacką. Pisała liryki stylizowane na ludowe i realistyczne obrazki (W piwnicznej izbie). Wydawała cykle nowel (Moi znajomi, Nowele, Na drodze). W otoczeniu ośmiorga swoich dzieci tworzyła bajki (Na jagody). Jako poetka, inspiracji szukała w naturze (Zimowy poranek). Swoje wiersze publikowała głównie w prasie. Wiersz patriotyczny Rota konkurował z Mazurkiem Dąbrowskiego o miano hymnu Polski. Wiele jej utworów powstało podczas podróży po Europie (Italia). Ostatnie lata życia poświęciła poematowi Pan Balcer w Brazylii. -
Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki ['juljuʂ swɔ'vatski] (4 September 1809 in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russian Empire now in Ukraine – 3 April 1849 in Paris) was a noted Polish Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, mysticism, and Orientalism.
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Life and work
Influenced largely by Byron and Shakespeare, Słowacki's early work was often historical in nature, combining exotic locales (as in Arab) and tragedy (as in Maria Stuart). His work took on a more nationalist tone following the failed November Insurrection of 1830 - 1831. Like many of his countrymen, he decided to emigrate to France as a political refugee. Ironically, the first collections of poems he produced in -
Stanisław Wyspiański
Polish playwright, painter, poet, interior and furniture designer.
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Stefan Żeromski
Stefan Żeromski ( [ˈstɛfan ʐɛˈrɔmski] Strawczyn near Kielce, October 14, 1864 – November 20, 1925, Warsaw) was a Polish novelist and dramatist. He was called the "conscience of Polish literature". He also wrote under the pen names: Maurycy Zych, Józef Katerla and Stefan Iksmoreż.
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In 1892–96 Żeromski worked as a librarian—during the last two years, as the librarian—at the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil, Switzerland.
In recognition of his literary achievements, he was granted the privilege of using an apartment at the Royal Castle in Warsaw. In 1924 he was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in literature.[2]
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Aleksander Kamiński
hm. Aleksander Kamiński pseudonim "Kamyk" (ur. 28 stycznia 1903 w Warszawie, zm. tamże 15 marca 1978); przybrane nazwisko: Aleksander Kędzierski, pseudonimy: Dąbrowski, J. Dąbrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz Górecki, Hubert, Kamyk, Kaźmierczak, Bambaju – pedagog, wychowawca, twórca metody zuchowej, instruktor harcerski, harcmistrz, żołnierz Armii Krajowej oraz jeden z ideowych przywódców Szarych Szeregów. Mąż Janiny Kamińskiej, polskiej archeolog, pedagog i instruktorki Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego. Ojciec Ewy Rzetelskiej-Feleszko (profesor językoznawstwa).
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Rafał Kosik
Mówi o sobie, że jest niedokończonym architektem. Przerwał studia na Politechnice Warszawskiej, aby otworzyć własną agencję reklamową, w której jest dyrektorem kreatywnym i grafikiem. Jest autorem serii dla dzieci i młodzieży „Felix, Net i Nika”. Dotychczas opublikował: Felix, Net i Nika oraz Gang Niewidzialnych Ludzi (2004), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Teoretycznie Możliwa Katastrofa (2005), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pałac Snów (2006), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pułapka Nieśmiertelności (2007), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Orbitalny Spisek (2008) oraz Felix, Net i Nika oraz Orbitalny Spisek 2. Mała armia (2009). Dwa pierwsze tomy otrzymały tytuł „Książki Roku 2005” Polskiej Sekcji IBBY, tom trzeci otrzymał nominację do tytułu „Książki Roku 2007” Polskiej Se
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polski pisarz, prozaik i nowelista, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli realizmu z elementami naturalizmu w prozie Młodej Polski. Niewielką część jego spuścizny stanowią wiersze. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” Chłopi. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w dziejach literatury polskiej.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
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Czesław Centkiewicz
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Maria Krüger
Maria Krüger to pisarka literatury dziecięcej oraz dziennikarka.
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Ukończyła Wydział Humanistyczny Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego oraz Akademię Nauk Politycznych w Warszawie. Z zawodu była ekonomistką.
Debiutowała w 1928 w "Płomyczku". Pisała również do takich czasopism dla dzieci i młodzieży, jak: "Świerszczyk", "Płomyk" oraz "Dziatwa", "Słonko" i "Poranek" (czasopisma przedwojenne).
Podczas okupacji współdziałała z grupą "Epoka". Uczestniczyła w Powstaniu Warszawskim.
Wymyśliła znaną telewizyjną audycję "Miś z okienka", do której długo pisała teksty.
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Agnieszka Stelmaszyk
Pochodzi z Wielkopolski, uczęszczała do Szkoły Podstawowej im. Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Wysokiej. Z wykształcenia jest nauczycielką języka polskiego, nigdy jednak nie pracowała w szkole. Początkowe zainteresowania biologią i zawodem lekarki czerpała za sprawą swojej matki – nauczycielki biologii. Pochłaniały ją także historie archeologiczne i kryminały. Mieszka z rodziną w Bydgoszczy.
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Zadebiutowała w 2007 roku zbiorem Opowiadania z morałem w wydawnictwie Papilon. W 2010 roku ukazał się pierwszy tom serii Kroniki Archeo, która stała się najpopularniejszą serią autorki (sprzedała się w nakładzie ponad 500 tys. egzemplarzy). Jej książki ukazały się w języku azerskim, czeskim, estońskim, fińskim, litewskim, niemieckim, rosyjskim oraz ukr -
Rafał Kosik
Mówi o sobie, że jest niedokończonym architektem. Przerwał studia na Politechnice Warszawskiej, aby otworzyć własną agencję reklamową, w której jest dyrektorem kreatywnym i grafikiem. Jest autorem serii dla dzieci i młodzieży „Felix, Net i Nika”. Dotychczas opublikował: Felix, Net i Nika oraz Gang Niewidzialnych Ludzi (2004), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Teoretycznie Możliwa Katastrofa (2005), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pałac Snów (2006), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Pułapka Nieśmiertelności (2007), Felix, Net i Nika oraz Orbitalny Spisek (2008) oraz Felix, Net i Nika oraz Orbitalny Spisek 2. Mała armia (2009). Dwa pierwsze tomy otrzymały tytuł „Książki Roku 2005” Polskiej Sekcji IBBY, tom trzeci otrzymał nominację do tytułu „Książki Roku 2007” Polskiej Se
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Mira Lobe
Mira Lobe wurde 1913 in der niederschlesischen Handelsstadt Görlitz in einer jüdischen Kaufmannsfamilie geboren. Nach dem Besuch der Volksschule absolvierte sie hier das Gymnasium, wo sie 1933 maturierte. Nach ihrer Schulzeit wollte sie Germanistik und Kunstgeschichte studieren, jedoch war ihr dies als Jüdin untersagt. Nach Abschluss der Textil- und Modeschule in Berlin wanderte sie 1936 nach Palästina aus; Mutter, Großmutter und Schwester sollten später nachkommen. Im Sommer 1940 heiratete sie den deutschen Schauspieler und Regisseur Friedrich Lobe (* 1889)[1], der am Arbeitertheater „Ohel“ in Tel Aviv wirkte. 1944 brachte sie Tochter Claudia und 1947 Sohn Reinhardt zur Welt. Danach begann sie zu schreiben.
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Sławomir Mrożek
Sławomir Mrożek (born June 29, 1930, died August 15, 2013) was a Polish dramatist and writer.
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Mrożek joined the Polish United Workers' Party during the reign of Stalinism in the People's Republic of Poland, and made a living as a political journalist.
In the late 1950s Mrożek begun writing plays. His first play, "Policja" (The Police), was published in 1958. Mrożek emigrated to France in 1963 and then further to Mexico. He traveled in France, England, Italy, Yugoslavia and other European countries. In 1996 he returned to Poland and settled in Kraków.
His first full-length play "Tango" (1964) – a family saga – is still along with "The Emigrants" (a bitter and ironic portrait of two Polish emigrants in Paris) his best-known work, and continue to -
Edmund Niziurski
A popular Polish writer, author of several of humorous novels and stories for children, adolescents and adults, written with a specific kind of irony. Niziurski was also a sociologist and a lawyer.
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Grzegorz Kasdepke
Urodzony w 1972 r. w Białymstoku. Autor książek dla dzieci i młodzieży.
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Twórca słuchowisk radiowych. W latach 1995-2000 redaktor naczelny
magazynu dla dzieci "Świerszczyk".
Autor scenariuszy programów oraz seriali telewizyjnych (Ciuchcia, Budzik, Podwieczorek u Mini i Maxa).
Laureat Nagrody imienia Kornela Makuszyńskiego (za książkę "Kacperiada..."), zdobywca - dwukrotnie - Nagrody Edukacyjnej XXI (za książki "Co to znaczy..." oraz "Bon czy ton"), autor bestsellerów wielokrotnie honorowanych laurami (wyróżnienie Polskiej Sekcji ibBY za książkę "Horror, czyli skąd się biorą dzieci", wyróżnienie w konkursie na najlepszą książkę roku za książkę "Rózga", "Małe pióro" za cykl książek o Kubie i Bubie).
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Karolina Glaser
Karolina Glaser ma siedemnaście lat, jest uczennicą liceum. Pisze od zawsze. Pasjonuje się fantastyką, ale też neurobiologią, psychologią i sztuką. Jest już w trakcie pisania kolejnej powieści.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polski pisarz, prozaik i nowelista, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli realizmu z elementami naturalizmu w prozie Młodej Polski. Niewielką część jego spuścizny stanowią wiersze. Laureat Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury za czterotomową „epopeję chłopską” Chłopi. Jeden z najwybitniejszych i najważniejszych pisarzy w dziejach literatury polskiej.
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Władysław Stanisław Reymont (7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the laureate of the 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants).
Born into an impoverished noble family, Reymont was educated to become a master tailor, but instead worked as a gateman at a railway station and then as an actor in a troupe. His inten -
Juliusz Słowacki
Juliusz Słowacki ['juljuʂ swɔ'vatski] (4 September 1809 in Kremenets, Volhynia, Russian Empire now in Ukraine – 3 April 1849 in Paris) was a noted Polish Romantic poet, considered to be one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature. His works often feature elements of Slavic pagan traditions, mysticism, and Orientalism.
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Life and work
Influenced largely by Byron and Shakespeare, Słowacki's early work was often historical in nature, combining exotic locales (as in Arab) and tragedy (as in Maria Stuart). His work took on a more nationalist tone following the failed November Insurrection of 1830 - 1831. Like many of his countrymen, he decided to emigrate to France as a political refugee. Ironically, the first collections of poems he produced in -
Jan Parandowski
Jan Parandowski was a Polish writer, essayist, and translator. Best known for his works relating to classical antiquity, he was also the president of the Polish PEN Club between 1933 and 1978, with a break during World War II.
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Cary Fagan
Cary Fagan has written numerous books for children, including What Are You Doing, Benny?, Little Blue Chair and Mr. Zinger's Hat, which was awarded the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award and the IODE Jean Throop Award. He has also won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People for his body of work. Cary was born and raised in Toronto, where he continues to live with his family.
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Robert Hugh Benson
Mrsgr. Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS was an English Catholic priest and writer. First an Anglican pastor, he was received into the Catholic Church in 1903 and ordained therein the next year. He was also a prolific writer of fiction, writing the notable dystopian novel Lord of the World, as well as Come Rack! Come Rope!.
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His output encompassed historical, horror and science fiction, contemporary fiction, children's stories, plays, apologetics, devotional works and articles. He continued his writing career at the same time as he progressed through the hierarchy to become a Chamberlain to Pope Pius X in 1911, and gain the title of Monsignor before his death a few years later. -
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Ferenc Molnár
Ferenc Molnár (Americanized name: Franz Molnar) was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. During the World War II he emigrated to the United States to escape the Nazi persecution of Hungarian Jews.
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Julian Kornhauser
Julian Kornhauser (born 20 September 1946 in Gliwice, Poland) is a Polish poet and literary critic.
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He was born to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, Jakub and Małgorzata Kornhauser. He is an author of poems, novels and literary sketches. He also published translations of Serbian and Croatian poetry. At present, he works as a professor at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is one of the most prominent representatives of the poetic New Wave of the 1970s and a co-founder of the literary group "Teraz". -
Joanna Williams
Dr Joanna Williams is Head of Education and Culture at Policy Exchange. She is an author, commentator and the associate editor of Spiked.
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Joanna began her career teaching English in secondary schools and Further Education. She started working as a lecturer in Higher Education and Academic Practice at the University of Kent in 2007. She was Director of Kent’s Centre for the Study of Higher Education until 2016.
Joanna is the author of Consuming Higher Education Why Learning Can’t Be Bought (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Her most recent book is Women vs Feminism (Emerald, 2017).
Joanna has written numerous academic journal articles and book chapters as well as being a frequent contribu -
Kornel Makuszyński
Kornel Makuszyński (Stryj, now in Ukraine, 8 January 1884 — 31 July 1953, Zakopane) was a Polish writer of children's and youth literature.
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Makuszyński attended school in Lviv (Polish: Lwów) and wrote his first poems at the age of 14. These were published two years later in the newspaper Słowo Polskie, in which he soon became a theatre critic. He studied language and literature at both the University of Lviv (then Jan Kazimierz University in Lwów, Poland) and in Paris. He was evacuated to Kiev in 1915, where he ran the Polish Theatre and was the chairman of the Polish writers and journalist community.
He moved to Warsaw in 1918, and became a writer.
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Christel Petitcollin
Conseil et Formatrice en Communication et Développement Personnel
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Aleksander Kamiński
hm. Aleksander Kamiński pseudonim "Kamyk" (ur. 28 stycznia 1903 w Warszawie, zm. tamże 15 marca 1978); przybrane nazwisko: Aleksander Kędzierski, pseudonimy: Dąbrowski, J. Dąbrowski, Fabrykant, Faktor, Juliusz Górecki, Hubert, Kamyk, Kaźmierczak, Bambaju – pedagog, wychowawca, twórca metody zuchowej, instruktor harcerski, harcmistrz, żołnierz Armii Krajowej oraz jeden z ideowych przywódców Szarych Szeregów. Mąż Janiny Kamińskiej, polskiej archeolog, pedagog i instruktorki Związku Harcerstwa Polskiego. Ojciec Ewy Rzetelskiej-Feleszko (profesor językoznawstwa).
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Sheila Burnford
Sheila Philip Cochrane Burnford, née Every, (11 May 1918 – 20 April 1984) was an English novelist.
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Born in Scotland but brought up in various parts of the United Kingdom, she attended St. George's School, Edinburgh and Harrogate Ladies College. In 1941 she married Doctor David Burnford, with whom she had three children. During World War II she worked as a volunteer ambulance driver. In 1951 she emigrated to Canada, settling in Port Arthur, Ontario.
Burnford is best remembered for The Incredible Journey, a story about three animals traveling in the wilderness (1961), the first of a number of books she wrote on Canadian topics. The book was a modest success in 1961 but became a bestseller after it formed the basis of a successful Disney film. A -
Goran Petrović
One of the most significant and most widely read contemporary Serbian writers. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the Faculty of Philology of Belgrade University.
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He worked as a librarian at the Žiča city library, not too far away from the Žiča Monastery.
Awards:
the Borislav Pekić Fund Scholarship;
the "Prosveta Award";
the "Meša Selimović Award";
the "Charter of Rača",
the "Golden Bestseller", "Vital Award";
the "National Library of Serbia"Award; the "Most widely read Book Award" (NIN, 2001);
the "October Award of the City of Kraljevo;
the "Borislav Stanković Award".
Petrović's books have been reprinted several times. His novels have already been translated into Russian, French, Italian, Polish and Spanish.
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Lew Wallace
Lewis "Lew" Wallace was a lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, American statesman, and author, best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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From Civil War Biography:
Although he would have much preferred to be remembered as a highly successful military hero, Lew Wallace has been thwarted in this ambition and is best known as an author. Born in Indiana, he had worked as a clerk and early displayed a fascination for Mexico which would affect him in later years. During the Mexican War he served as a second lieutenant in the lst Indiana but saw only minor action. In 1849 he was admitted to the bar in his native state and seven years later entered the state senate.
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Maria Konopnicka
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Jan Sawa (Pen Name)
Poetka, publicystka, nowelistka, tłumaczka. Zajmowała się krytyką literacką. Pisała liryki stylizowane na ludowe i realistyczne obrazki (W piwnicznej izbie). Wydawała cykle nowel (Moi znajomi, Nowele, Na drodze). W otoczeniu ośmiorga swoich dzieci tworzyła bajki (Na jagody). Jako poetka, inspiracji szukała w naturze (Zimowy poranek). Swoje wiersze publikowała głównie w prasie. Wiersz patriotyczny Rota konkurował z Mazurkiem Dąbrowskiego o miano hymnu Polski. Wiele jej utworów powstało podczas podróży po Europie (Italia). Ostatnie lata życia poświęciła poematowi Pan Balcer w Brazylii. -
Cyprian Kamil Norwid
Polish poet, dramatist, prosaist, essayist, philosopher, painter and sculptor. An outsider, despite his acquaintance with the famous - Chopin, Mickiewicz, Słowacki and Krasiński, he remained underestimated to be finally appreciated in the XX century. Censorship in partitioned Poland forced him to live in Paris. His work included hundreds of poems, some prose, dramas, sketches, paintings and sculptures. His early unfulfilled love formed his style, full of sensitivity. Since then he was mostly lonely, with the first of two other known romances occurring at age of 47. His main interests were writing style, polish society and morality. He spent all money on works of art and journeys to live in London, Berlin, New York and, mostly, Paris.
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Narcyza Żmichowska
A Polish novelist and poet. She is considered to be one of the precursors of feminism in Poland. Also known under her popular nom de plume Gabryella.
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Żmichowska's first novel published in 1846 was Poganka (The Heathen), in which she is known to have expressed interest in her friend Paulina Zbyszewska. The book was published by Northern Illinois University Press in 2012 in English translation by Dr Ursula Phillips. Letters to friends and family written by Żmichowska were published in five volumes by Wrocław University in 1960. There, she also expressed interest in a married man, Edward Dembowski, which led to a known scandal. Her correspondence with Bibianna Moraczewska (an unmarried woman by choice like Narcyza) spanning 32 years consisted m -
Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd C. Douglas was a noteworthy American minister and author. He spent part of his boyhood in Monroeville, Indiana, Wilmot, Indiana and Florence, Kentucky, where his father, Alexander Jackson Douglas, was pastor of the Hopeful Lutheran Church. He died in Los Angeles, California.
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Douglas was one of the most popular American authors of his time, although he didn't write his first novel until he was 50.
His written works were of a moral, didactic, and distinctly religious tone. His first novel, Magnificent Obsession, was an immediate and sensational success. Critics held that his type of fiction was in the tradition of the great religious writings of an earlier generation, such as, Ben-Hur and Quo Vadis.
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Alfred Szklarski
Alfred Szklarski was born in Chicago in 1912 as a son of political emigrant and a journalist, Andrzej Szklarski, and Maria (maiden name Markosik). He started to attend school in Chicago, but in 1928 he moved with his father to Poland, when he went to II Jan Długosz gymnasium in Włocławek, which he graduted in 1931r. In years 1932 - 1938 he studied at Consular - Diplomatic Faculty at Academy Of Political Science in Warsaw getting his diploma in 1938. During the World War II he stayed in Warsaw, where he took part in Battle for Warsaw as volonteer shooter in 2nd Plutoon of Air Company in Batallion "Thunder". After defeat of the Battle for Warsaw he moved to Cracow and than in February 1945 to Katowice.
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Gabriela Zapolska
Maria Gabriela Stefania Korwin-Piotrowska, known as Gabriela Zapolska, was a Polish novelist, playwright, naturalist writer, feuilletonist, theatre critic and stage actress. Zapolska wrote 41 plays, 23 novels, 177 short stories, 252 works of journalism, one film script, and over 1,500 letters. She received most recognition for her socio-satirical comedies. [wikipedia]
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Gabriela Zapolska, właśc. Maria Gabriela Janowska z domu Piotrowska herbu Korwin, primo voto Śnieżko-Błocka (ur. 30 marca 1857 w Podhajcach, zm. 17 grudnia 1921 we Lwowie) – polska aktorka, dramatopisarka, powieściopisarka i publicystka.
Przedstawicielka polskiego naturalizmu, wykpiwała moralną obłudę mieszczaństwa; pisała komedie satyryczne, dramaty i powieści. [wikipedia] -
Élisabeth Revol
Élisabeth Revol, née le 29 avril 1979 à Crest (Drôme), est une alpiniste française, notamment connue pour ses réalisations himalayennes en style alpin. Elle débute par son premier sommet à 6 000 m en 2006 puis deux ans plus tard, part sur l’Himalaya. Elle est la première femme à avoir réalisé le triplé Broad Peak - Gasherbrum I - Gasherbrum II en solitaire et sans oxygène. Le Gasherbrum I - Gasherbrum II sont enchaînés en un temps record de 52 heures sans retour au camp de base. Elle est également la première femme à réussir un 8 000 en hiver, en style alpin au Pakistan. Ouverture d'une voie en face nord ouest en hiver2. En janvier 2018, elle bénéficie d'un sauvetage exceptionnel dans des conditions très difficiles sur les pentes du Nanga P
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Kate O'Brien
Kathleen Mary Louise "Kate" O'Brien, was an Irish novelist and playwright.
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After the success of her play, Distinguished Villa in 1926, she took to full-time writing and was awarded the 1931 James Tait Black Prize for her novel Without My Cloak. She is best known for her 1934 novel The Ante-Room, her 1941 novel The Land of Spices and the 1946 novel That Lady. Many of her books dealt with issues of female sexuality — with several exploring gay/lesbian themes — and both Mary Lavelle and The Land of Spices were banned in Ireland. She also wrote travel books, or rather accounts of places and experiences, on both Ireland and Spain, a country she loved, and which features in a number of her novels. She lived much of her later life in England and d -
Louis de Wohl
Mr. de Wohl was a Knight Commander of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and his wife (nee Ruth Magdalene Lorch, whom he married in 1953) is a Lady Commander of the same Order. His fifty books include The Living Wood (Lippincott, 1947), Imperial Renegade (id., 1950), The Restless Flame (id., 1951), Throne of the World (id., 1949; published in England as Attila), The Golden Thread (Lippincott, 1952), The Second Conquest (id., 1954), Set All Afire (id., 1953), The Spear (id., 1955), and St. Joan, the Girl Soldier (Farrar, 1957) in the Vision Books series.
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Allan Massie
Allan Massie is a Scottish journalist, sports writer and novelist. Massie is one of Scotland's most prolific and well-known journalists, writing regular columns for The Scotsman, The Sunday Times (Scotland) and the Scottish Daily Mail. He is also the author of nearly 30 books, including 20 novels. He is notable for writing about the distant past.
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Marcin Szczygielski
Polish writer, graphic designer, journalist & interior designer.
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Małgorzata Musierowicz
Małgorzata Musierowicz (b. January 9, 1945 in Poznań, Poland) is a popular Polish writer, author of many stories and novels for children and teenagers, but read with pleasure by adults too.
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Vladimir Megré
Vladimir Nikolaevich Megre (born 23 July, 1950 in Kuznichi village, Gorodnyansky District, Chernigov Region in Ukraine), the author of The Ringing Cedars of Russia book series, was a well-known entrepreneur. He spent most of his childhood with his grandmother Efrosinia Verkhusha, a village healer.
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As a teenager Vladimir occasionally visited Father Feodorit, a priest of the Trinity-Sergiyev Monastery. Later he was shown there the picture «The One and Only» which he described in his second book before the picture was revealed to the world.
Vladimir started an independent life early and left the parents' house at the age of 16. Since 1974 he lived in Novosibirsk and worked as a photographer with Novosibirskoblfoto, a service company.
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Verner von Heidenstam
Carl Gustav Verner von Heidenstam was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916 "in recognition of his significance as the leading representative of a new era in our literature."
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Falauke
Polska autorka komiksów, ilustratorka i twórczyni lalek.
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W latach 2011-2017 publikowała w Internecie paski komiksowe spod szyldu “Rainbowner”, po czym przerzuciła się na papier - w druku pojawiły się min.: „Nie lubię siebie, gdy jestem pijana” (2017); ziny z serii "Przewodniki po śmierci" (2019, 2020); „Bardzo ważne” (2022); a także krótkie formy publikowane w antologiach (m.in. "Własnym głosem", "Warchlaki"). Była stypendystką programu rezydencji komiksowych dwóch Miast Literatury UNESCO: Krakowa i Angoulême. Wydany przez Kulturę Gniewu album „Czy wszystko smakuje?” (2023) to jej pełnometrażowy debiut, opowiadający o doświadczeniu pracy w polskiej gastronomii. Jej komiksy znajdziesz w księgarniach internetowych, stacjonarnych, a także na pl -
Gertrud von le Fort
Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems, and essays. She came from a Protestant background, but converted to Catholicism in 1926. Most of Gertrud's writings come after this conversion. In 1952 she won the Gottfried-Keller-Preis award.
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Her novella Die Letzte am Schafott (The Last on the Scaffold) was the original basis for the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc. She also wrote a book called The Eternal Woman, which was published in paperback in English on March 1st, 2010.
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Janusz Korczak
Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish children's author, pediatrician, and child pedagogue, also known under the pseudonym "Stary Doktor".
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He was born Henryk Goldszmit in Warsaw on July 22, 1878. During his youth, he played with children who were poor and lived in bad neighborhoods; his passion for helping disadvantaged youth continued into his adulthood. He studied medicine and also had a promising career in literature. When he gave up his career in literature and medicine, he changed his name to Janusz Korczak, a pseudonym derived from a 19th century novel, Janasz Korczak and the pretty Swordsweeperlady.
In 1912, Korczak established a Jewish orphanage, Dom Sierot, in a building which he designed to advance his progressive educational theories -
Carl Spitteler
Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler (24 April 1845 – 29 December 1924) was a Swiss poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1919 "in special appreciation of his epic, Olympian Spring". His work includes both pessimistic and heroic poems.
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Spitteler was born in Liestal. His father was an official of the government, being Federal Secretary of the Treasury from 1849–56. Young Spitteler attended the gymnasium at Basel, having among his teachers philologist Wilhelm Wackernagel and historian Jakob Burckhardt. From 1863 he studied law at the University of Zurich. In 1865–1870 he studied theology in the same institution, at Heidelberg and Basel, though when a position as pastor was offered him, he felt that he must decline it. He had begun t -
Jakob Wassermann
Jakob Wassermann (1873 – 1934) was a German writer and novelist of Jewish descent.
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Born in Fürth, he was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers. Because his father was reluctant to support his literary ambitions, he began a short-lived apprenticeship with a businessman in Vienna after graduation.
He completed his military service in Nuremberg. Afterward, he stayed in southern Germany and in Switzerland. In 1894 he moved to Munich. Here he worked as a secretary and later as a copy editor at the paper Simplicissimus. Around this time he also became acquainted with other writers Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Thomas Mann.
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Anja Rubik
A Polish supermodel, activist, philanthropist, and businesswoman. She is considered to be one of the most internationally successful models of the mid- to late-2000s to today. Rubik is known for her effortless style and for being the muse of Anthony Vaccarello.[4] She currently lives and works in New York.
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Stanley Cloud
I was born and raised in and around Los Angeles and graduated as an English major from Pepperdine College. After college, I was a naval officer for six years.
I am also a former journalist (the Monterey Peninsula Herald, Time magazine, the Washington Star, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner) and, now, am the author or co-author of books, both fiction and non-fiction. With my wife -- the writer and historian Lynne Olson -- I have co-written two books: The Murrow Boys and A Question of Honor. My latest is a historical novel entitled The Manhattan Well , about Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr and a murder trial that scandalized New York City in 1800. (The novel is available from Amazon; for more information, please see the book’s web site: http://ww
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Thomas Mofolo
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is considered to be the greatest Basotho author. He wrote mostly in the Sesotho language, but his most popular book, Chaka, has been translated into English and other languages.
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Michael Treharne Davies
Michael Treharne Davies (1936-2004) was a convert from Anglicanism to the Catholic Church in the 1950s, and was a Catholic writer who authored various works following the Second Vatican Council, in addition to unifying Una Voce America, a conservative group. He went on to compose such works as The Liturgical Revolution, The Order of Melchisedech, Partisans of Error, For Altar and Throne,, and The Wisdom of Adrian Fortescue. Upon Davies' death in 2004, Pope Benedict XVI called him a man of deep faith who was ready to embrace suffering
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Stanisław Przybyszewski
Pisarz, poeta, dramaturg i publicysta. Urodzony 7 maja 1868 w Łojewie pod Kruszwicą, zmarł 23 listopada 1927 w Jarontach pod Inowrocławiem.
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Rozgłos zdobył w Berlinie, gdzie był jednym z bohaterów międzynarodowego środowiska artystycznego. Opublikował tam m.in. głośny esej "Zur Psychologie des Individuums. I - Chopin und Nietzsche. II - Ola Hansson" 1892 oraz poematy Totenmesse, 1895 (wersja polska Requiem aeternam, 1904), Vigilien, 1895 (wersja polska Z cyklu Wigilii, 1899), De profundis, 1895 (wersja polska 1900), Androgyne, 1900. Zapoczątkował w nich problemy konstytutywne dla całej jego twórczości: indywidualizm, status metafizyczny i społeczny jednostki twórczej, los geniuszy, sens przynależnych im atrybutów "degeneracji" i "choroby". Pr -
Ivan Efremov
Ivan Antonovich (real patronymic Antipovich) Yefremov (Russian: Иван Ефремов; April 22, 1908–October 5, 1972), last sometimes spelled Efremov, was a Soviet paleontologist, science fiction author and social thinker. He originated taphonomy, the study of fossilization patterns.
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Rod Bennett
My first published writing appeared when I was 15 years old in the pages of the legendary Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine. Since then, I've been featured in other national publications, ranging from Rutherford and Gadfly to Catholic Exchange and Our Sunday Visitor. I spoke on film and television topics for 10 years at Jesus People USA's Cornerstone Rock Festival, leading seminars on the cinema of Frank Capra, John Ford, and the Star Wars films of George Lucas. In 2006 I was invited by the Archbishop of Pittsburgh to address more than 300 teachers on the role pop culture can play in the religious education of teenagers. Recently, I've had the chance to discuss my work on radio and television programs such as The Journey Home and Bookmar
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Tone Seliškar
Tone Seliškar se je rodil 1.aprila 1900 v Ljubljani, kot zadnji, sedmi otrok očetu Antonu in materi Mariji. Oče Anton je bil po poklicu strojevodja, tako da se je Tonetu Seliškarju v otroštvu dobro godilo. Šolanje je pričel na osnovni šoli na Vrtači, dokončal pa ga je na učiteljištvu v Ljubljani, kjer je leta 1919 tudi maturiral. Prvo učiteljsko mesto je dobil leta 1919 v Dramljah pri Celju. Leta 1920 je šel poučevat na Prežin nad Štorami, leta 1921 pa v Trbovlje. V Trbovljah je sodeloval pri delavskih socialističnih društvih, režiral in pisal (pesniška zbirka Trbovlje, 1923). Nekaj časa je učiteljeval tudi v Reki pri Laškem in v Cerkljah pri Krškem. Leta 1925 pa je dobil mesto učitelja na meščanski šoli v Ljubljani na Prulah. Leta 1942 je
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Cătălin Pavel
Cătălin Pavel (n. 1976) este scriitor și arheolog. A urmat studii doctorale și postdoctorale la Univ. of Oxford, Univ. Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institutul Arheologic Albright din Ierusalim, Univ. Hamburg și Colegiul Noua Europă din București. A participat la săpături arheologice în țară, în Germania, Franța, Anglia, Maroc, Israel și în special în Turcia (la Milet, Gordion și, în 2005–2010, la Troia). A predat arheologie, artă clasică și teme arheologice în literatură în București, Cluj și Atlanta, iar în prezent este conferențiar universitar la Univ. „Ovidius” din Constanța, unde coordonează doctorate și conduce săpăturile arheologice ale universității la Histria. Romane: Aproape a șaptea parte din lume (Humanitas, 2010, Premiul de debut
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Barbara Kosmowska
Ukończyła filologię polską na Uniwersytecie Gdańskim. Przez krótki czas była nauczycielką języka polskiego w Bytowie. W roku 1999 na macierzystej uczelni gdańskiej obroniła pracę doktorską zatytułowaną Pomiędzy dzieciństwem a dorosłością. O powieściopisarstwie Zofii Urbanowskiej. Praca ta, dotycząca literatury polskiego pozytywizmu skierowanej do dzieci i młodzieży, dostała wyróżnienie Summa cum lauda.
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Obecnie pracuje na stanowisku adiunkta Zakładu Historii Literatury Romantyzmu i Pozytywizmu na Wydziale Filologiczno-Historycznym w Akademii Pomorskiej w Słupsku. Jej naukowe zainteresowania to literatura pozytywizmu oraz literatura dla dzieci i młodzieży (współpracuje z poświęconym tym problemom czasopismem Guliwer). Pełni również funkcje kur -
Bolesław Leśmian
Bolesław Leśmian (actually Bolesław Lesman) was a Polish poet of Jewish descent. He was an artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature. He was one of the most influential poets of the early 20th century in Poland, one of the best poets of 20th century and cousin of another notable poet of the epoch - Jan Brzechwa and a nephew of famous poet and writer of Young Poland - Antoni Lange.
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Charles Aznavour
Beloved French chanson entertainer Charles Aznavour, who wrote more than 800 songs, recorded more than 1,000 of them in French, English, German and Spanish and sold over 100 million records in all, was born Chahnour Varinag Aznavourian on May 22, 1924, in Paris, the younger of two children born to Armenian immigrants who fled to France. His mother was a seamstress as well as an actress and his father was a baritone who sang in restaurants. Both Charles and his sister waited on tables where he performed. He delivered his first poetic recital while just a toddler. Within a few years later he had developed such a passion for singing/dancing, that he sold newspapers to earn money for lessons.
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Karl May
Karl Friedrich May (also Karol May) was one of the best selling German writers of all time, noted mainly for books set in the American Old West, (best known for the characters of Winnetou and Old Shatterhand) and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East. In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America.
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Adolf Dygasiński
Adolf Dygasiński – polski powieściopisarz, publicysta, pedagog, encyklopedysta, jeden z głównych przedstawicieli naturalizmu w literaturze polskiej.
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Adolf Dygasiński was a Polish novelist, publicist and educator. In Polish literature, he was one of the leading representatives of Naturalism. -
Vicente Aleixandre
Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre won the Nobel Prize of 1977 for literature.
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Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo received it at 79 years of age. At the time, people barely knew him with just two available small editions in English translation. Two years later, in 1979, Harper and Row brought out bilingual edition of Lewis Hyde of selected poems of Aleixandre, A Longing for the Light . When people left the book to go out print, Copper Canyon published a paperback edition in 1985. Express Books noted in an article on Aleixandre, “A Longing for the Light remains the only readable collection of Aleixandre’s poetry available.”
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George Topîrceanu
Born in Bucharest, Topîrceanu began his schooling in the city, and then moved to the hilly countryside of the Argeş county, in the Șuici commune, where he formed his taste for themes taken from nature. After completing secondary studies, he attended the University of Bucharest Law School, and then its Faculty of Letters, without ever finishing either. This was largely due to a hectic lifestyle punctuated by numerous affairs and heavy alcohol use.He began publishing short verses to increasing critical acclaim. In 1926, he was awarded the National Poetry Prize.
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He died of liver cancer in Iaşi.
His three main volumes of poetry, Balade vesele şi triste ("Ballads, Merry and Sad"), Parodii originale ("Original Parodies") and Migdale amare ("Bitter -
Ryan A. Span
David Wood is the author of the adventure-thriller novels Cibola, an Amazon bestseller in "Men's Adventure" and kindle bestseller, and Dourado, a kindle bestseller the all-time bestselling fiction title for Smashwords e-books. He is a fan of all things historical, archaeological, and cryptozoological, and his writing blends all of these passions. In addition to his novels, his short fiction has appeared in various publications, and he writes the occasional article for Bleacher Report."
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Ilon Wikland
Ilon Wikland (Maire-Ilon Pääbo)
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Her father, Max Pääbo was a civil engineer and her mother, Vida Pääbo-Juse was a painter and textile artist who had graduated from the Pallas Art School in Tartu.
Ilon spent her childhood in Haapsalu. "I have often thought that the best thing that happened to me was going to live with my grandmother and grandfather in Haapsalu. I was like their own child. They cared for me and loved me a lot," explains Wikland many decades later.
Ilon started school in Tallinn and then from 1939–1944 she attended the 1st Primary School in Haapsalu. In late September 1944, Ilon’s grandmother took her to the ship that was to take her, along with a school friend and her family, to Sweden. The war was drawing to an end and Russian -
Sero Khanzadyan
Sero Khanzadyan was born in 1915 to the family of a ploughman in the town of Goris which is located in the rough mountains of Zangezur, where every bit of fertile ground is taken in a battle against solid rocks and burning sun.
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Little Sero’s parents used to tell him "You will learn the value of the land once you grow up". Many times he had noticed how people, returning from work in the field, would keep the pieces of ground stuck to their clothes and shake it off on a naked rock in front of their houses. "The land is the dearest thing that we have. Without the land there is no nation" – would be the words said by the characters of his novels.
Upon his graduation from the pedagogical college the young man worked as a schoolteacher. At the age -
Zenon Kosidowski
Zenon Kosidowski was a Polish writer, essayist and poet. He is known for his popular science books about ancient civilisations.
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Slavomir Nastasijević
Rođen je u porodici koja je dala više umetnika (njegova braća su slikar Živorad, književnik Momčilo i kompozitor Svetomir). Njihov otac, Nikola Lazarević, doselio se s majkom iz Ohrida u Brusnicu kao šestogodišnjak. U znak zahvalnosti prema ujaku Nastasu Đorđeviću (graditelju gornjomilanovačke crkve Svete Trojice) kod koga je izučio graditeljski zanat, odriče se majčinog prezimena i od ujakovog imena pravi novo prezime – Nastasijević. Završio je studije klasične filologije na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu, a studirao je i istoriju i arheologiju.
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Kao pisac, najpre se oglasio humorističkim prilozima u listovima Zvono, Ošišani jež, Jež i Pravda. Naklonost publike prvo je zadobio putem komediografskih ostvarenja: „Začarani kućevlasnik”, „Ženi -
Alejandro Bullón
Alejandro Bullón was born in Peru, and has worked for more than forty years in South America. At present he lives in Brazil, and his greatest passion is public evangelism and communicating the gospel by radio, television, and the Internet.
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Tens of thousands of people attend his public conferences, and millions have benefited from his ministry.
He is also the author of several books and articles. His works have been published in Spanish, Portuguese, and English. -
José Echegaray
People awarded Nobel Prize in literature in 1904 to José Echegaray y Eizaguirre "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama." (Award shared with Frederic Mistral.)
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